Deirdre Gribbin is a contemporary composer, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1967. She was an award winner in the 2003 UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers with her work Empire States, and won a prestigious Arts Foundation Award for her first opera Hey Persephone! which had an acclaimed run at the Aldeburgh/Almeida Opera Festival.

After leaving school Roger Doyle attended the Royal Irish Academy of Music for 3 years studying composing, during which time he was awarded 2 composition scholarships. 'I am a composer', he thought. His works '4 Sketches' and 'All the Rage' won respectively second and first prizes in the Dublin Symphony Orchestra's composition competition, receiving performances when Roger was in his early 20s.

Three different artists are listed on Last.fm under the name Ian Wilson:
1) An American loop artist, keyboardist, and singer/songwriter.
2) An Irish contemporary classical composer.
3) A British alternative singer/songwriter